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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2003
David Milway, Cambs, GB;
William Stoye, Cambridge, GB;
David Milway, Cambs, GB;
William Stoye, Cambridge, GB;
Brooktree Broadband Holding, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for scheduling the transmission of cells onto an network, or other packet switching network, is disclosed. The central feature of the scheduling mechanism is a quality of service engine (QoS Engine) which accelerates the processing of packets in a packet switching networks, such as an ATM network, by assisting the accurate pacing of many ATM virtual circuits. The QoS Engine allows the concurrent support of a wide variety of port speeds, traffic classes using different priorities and traffic parameters. quality of service engine (QoS Engine) works in conjunction with a network processor (NP) to allow it to maintain software flexibility, and for it to achieve accurate pacing.